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| On the Stylistic Attributes and Origin of“Long Narrative Poetry” in the Tang Dynasty—Taking Three Court Narrative Poems as the Focus |
| Wu Huaidong |
| (College of Literature， Anhui University， Hefei 230039) |
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Abstract Only a handful of long narrative poems written by Tang Dynasty literati have survived to this day. While“Song of Everlasting Regret”， “Lianchang Palace Lyric”， and “Jinyang Gate Poem” are all based on the real historical figures of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang and Yang Guifei (literally Noble Consort Yang) and their palace life， the plots are fictional to a certain extent. Although these three poems have some factors of “novel，” such as narrative and fictional， they still belong to the category of lyric poetry. The traditional concept of “long narrative poetry” is not enough to characterize its poetic uniqueness. The emergence of this unique narrative poetry was closely related to the social and cultural environment of the mid-Tang Dynasty， especially influenced by folk literature and religious oral art. In the literary environment where short lyric poetry was highly developed and had formed a strong tradition since the pre-Qin period， such long narrative poems were also rare in the Tang Dynasty and did not continue to be developed or widely popularized by later generations of literati.
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Received: 11 October 2025
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2025, Vol. 64 
